Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time
Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient for the first time
The in-human clinical trial marks just one step on Neuralink's path toward commercialization.
What terrifies me about this is that there are no regulations or laws in place that say how long this tech that is implanted into people must be supported. Those poor people who got the bionic eye implants are now left with no replacement parts or support after the company went under, leaving those with implants that still work seeing with borrowed time.
My car isn't even getting updates anymore and it's fewer than ten years old. I'll never put tech in my body until it's legally required to be supported, and also open source so I can support it
We also should have laws on other medical implants (ex. stents etc.), so there is a pathway to getting these regulations in
We just need them yesterday
People are not too bright I'm afraid. I feel sorry for them, but it is what it is....
Some people are just desparate.
Not too bright?
If you lost your vision, would you not consider a bionic eye if it could restore your sight? Your independence?
Have you ever seen that video of the blind child struggling to learn how to step down a curb into the road? How tense it was watching this adorable little kid struggle to navigate something that we take entirely for granted? Now imagine doing that for everything.
Learn to cook some basic meals for yourself, burn your finger every time you make a cup of coffee or tea because you put a finger in the lip to feel when it's full. (Or use the little alarm you hang over your cup that makes a terrible squeal when water hits it.)
Remember to pin socks together when you take them off so you don't lose the match in the wash and need to ask someone to help you match them.
Mark the settings on every appliance from your washer to your microwave because they all use seamless buttons and dials. Mix up your shampoo and conditioner every time you forget to put them in the same place.
Hire someone to do the most basic tasks for you because you cannot see to properly scrub surfaces or sweep and mop, you can be methodical and keep things mostly ok, but to find the bits that need a scrub?
Have to take public transport and navigate the endless construction and idiots who leave scooters and cars parked on the sidewalk.
https://www.tiktok.com/@jemmabrown8/video/7159318917033282821
A blind person is not "dull" because they took a chance to have their sight restored, rather, we are not too bright for failing to regulate these new technologies to protect those people who depend on them.
Every safety rule and regulation is written in blood. Those at the forefront of these new technologies will not regulate themselves, it is up to us to keep them in check.
This whole thing sucks because this kind of tech has the potential to be revolutionary. For people with paralysis, or those experiencing vision loss due to eye issues, the tech to interface nerves with sensors and inputs will be absolutely revolutionary. On the other hand, Musk has a terrible track record with safety and regulation, develops tech by abusing researchers and workers with unrealistic timelines and expectations, overpromises and under delivers, and responds with hostility to even the most measured criticism. Having his name tied to the version of this tech leading the news cycle will paint it in a dystopian light, raising the regulatory bar to "panic" levels with no nuance, and will likely result in pushing more realistic approaches to the tech back a significant amount of time, hurting those it would help most.
Absolutely agree.
Musk is running twitter into the ground. He's already destroyed Tesla with his decisions around self-driving, it just seems the markets haven't cottoned on yet to how grossly overvalued the company is. OpenAI is looking to be a mess.
You're absolutely right that this technology has massive potential, and Musk is definitely not the guy to deliver it.
My thoughts exactly. This tech has amazing implications for people with paralysis and other disorders that prevent the use of their body. It sucks that this egomaniacal asshole is the one controlling it's development
How on earth did Musk manage to get the proper authorization for testing on humans???
Anyway, I hope everything goes well for the patient. Those reports about the monkeys planted horrible images in my mind.Lol. Lmao even.
About as soon as should have gotten any rights to publish any cars. At all.
I wish the patient, scientists, and doctors success. I'm very concerned about the safety record for Neuralink, but I desperately hope they turned things around and that this patient responds well.
This tech has existed for decades, musk is just trying to shrink it.
I remember early 90s hearing about paralyzed patients who could control a mouse and keyboard through an implant.
It was mostly for bed ridden patients, so no one tri d to shrink it. Musk is billing this as a medical device, but the only reason to shrink it, is for people that dont need it.
He's predicting regular healthy people using it, so he's dumping crazy money into this. And there just isn't a big enough consumer base for it, even if it wasn't musk making it.
So even if it works, he ain't making money from it.
Shrinking it would be very useful for people that have disabilities that don't leave them bedridden.
Hopefully they have other options than Muskshit. Anything he touches is unsafe
I'll implant a bullet in my head before any tech directly touches my neurons.
But you can be a cyberpunk!
Dreams of a cyberpunk future where the sum total of the world's knowledge of any subject can be just a thought away
Most likely reality:
Popup ads are now intrusive thoughts. 40 percent of your implant's processing power is spent looking for cues in your environment to better serve you "curated content" (i.e. advertising). Knowledge is still somewhat freely available but just after this quick shout out to our sponsors.
When you're looking for something specific it's a coin toss whether you get actual knowledge or an AI hallucination and you can't tell the difference. You can pay $279.99/mo for premium access to verified sources, but if your licence expires you forget everything.
Learn some computer security, get yourself a secondhand laptop and a shitty hoodie. There, you're cyberpunk.
No potential brain melting wetware needed.
"I’ll implant a bullet in somebody's head before any tech directly touches my neurons."
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Guessing you're not a paraplegic?
Do you think the first subject is actually an Elon simp, or are they ethical enough to weed them out?
We both know the answer very well, don't we....
This is so depressing...
Maybe shocking the brain of Elon simps will fix their broken brains.
You have to watch 2 15seconds advertisements before you sleep.
Every 2 years number of adds will increase by one and lenght by 5 second.
Have a nice hell in a retirement home.
We will going to see some adblockers soon.
Give it 10 years and open source will have something not as good, but good enough. Then we won't have to deal with all the extra ads of the normal devices. We will be able to side load some cool new upgrade, while the rest will have to change models to the Brain Master 21 to access a slightly better feature.
Elon may be the first to commercialize this tech for the masses but there is no way he will be the only one who makes one of these devices.
I imagine that scenario, for us might be weird cyberpunk-ish world. Thats the power and the philosophy of open source.
My mind is blown enough by the "what if we already have this in our heads from birth and it's controlling everything we see and we just don't know it" thought experiment to ever voluntarily do something like this. But I hope everyone is fine.
As someone who would be open to modifying my mind, not with shitty Musk tech. Not with cars rated like his and rockets that fail regularly.
Try psychedelics.